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#f6f7fc

a pale, vivid blue · cool · closest name: Ghost White

Token name suggestion: Whisper Sapphire

RGB
246, 247, 252
HSL
230°, 50%, 98%
CMYK
2, 2, 0, 1
Luminance
0.9314

#f6f7fc is a pale vivid blue, 230° on the wheel and 89/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (19.63:1). As text it scores 1.07:1 on white — use #5D6FC9 instead. Nearest name is Ghost White, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(230 50% 98%)rgb(246 247 252)Base step 50AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f6f7fc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f6f7fc
Hue
230°
blue
Saturation
50%
vivid
Lightness
98%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
97%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9314
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
89/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
19.63:1
Closest name
Ghost White
ΔE2000 1.2
Chroma
2.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.977
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 30.7
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue230° of 360°
Saturation50%
Lightness98%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f6f7fc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool89% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red21%
Green71%
Blue8%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#f6f7fc
HEX (8-digit)#f6f7fcff
RGBrgb(246, 247, 252)
RGBArgba(246, 247, 252, 1)
HSLhsl(230, 50%, 98%)
HSV / HSBhsv(230, 2%, 99%)
HWBhwb(230 96% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(2%, 2%, 0%, 1%)
LABlab(97.3 0.6 -2.5)
LCHlch(97.3 2.6 282.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.977 0.007 277.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(88.83, 93.14, 105.37)
Decimal16185340
Display P3color(display-p3 0.965 0.969 0.988)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f6f7fc;
background-color: #f6f7fc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f6f7fc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f6f7fc] bg-[#f6f7fc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f6f7fc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.965, green: 0.969, blue: 0.988)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.965, green: 0.969, blue: 0.988, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F6F7FC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF6F7FC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF6F7FC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(252, 247, 246)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(246, 247, 252)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(246, 247, 252)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 246, 247, 252)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9647f, 0.9686f, 0.9882f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{246,247,252}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f6f7fc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f6f7fc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#202A60, #D3D7EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f6f7fc h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #f6f7fc;
  --brand-100: #EAECF6;
  --brand-200: #CFD4EC;
  --brand-300: #ABB4E3;
  --brand-400: #818FD5;
  --brand-500: #5769C7;
  --brand-600: #3D52B8;
  --brand-700: #334499;
  --brand-800: #29367A;
  --brand-900: #212A59;
  --brand-950: #151B38;
  --brand: #f6f7fc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F5FA;
  --brand-border: #C2C9EB;
  --brand-hover: #DBDFF3;
  --brand-pressed: #C0C7EA;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141624;
    --brand-ink: #D3D7EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#f6f7fc',
        100: '#EAECF6',
        200: '#CFD4EC',
        300: '#ABB4E3',
        400: '#818FD5',
        500: '#5769C7',
        600: '#3D52B8',
        700: '#334499',
        800: '#29367A',
        900: '#212A59',
        950: '#151B38',
        DEFAULT: '#f6f7fc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #f6f7fc,
  '100': #EAECF6,
  '200': #CFD4EC,
  '300': #ABB4E3,
  '400': #818FD5,
  '500': #5769C7,
  '600': #3D52B8,
  '700': #334499,
  '800': #29367A,
  '900': #212A59,
  '950': #151B38,
);
$brand-base: #f6f7fc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#f6f7fc", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EAECF6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CFD4EC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ABB4E3", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#818FD5", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#5769C7", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#3D52B8", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#334499", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#29367A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#212A59", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#151B38", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#000000 on #f6f7fc · 19.63:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.07:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 19.63:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f6f7fc as text scores 1.07:1 on white and 19.63:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #202A60 at 12.57:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#5D6FC9 · 4.58:1
AA on white−40% L
#5D6FC9
The quick fox
#3B4FB2 · 7.13:1
AAA on white−51% L
#3B4FB2
The quick fox
#f6f7fc · 19.63:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f6f7fc
The quick fox
#f6f7fc · 19.63:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f6f7fc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #8391D6 is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#f6f7fc on white: 1.07:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f6f7fc on black: 19.63:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f6f7fc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f6f7fc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.07:1AaAa
Slate 501.02:1AaAa
Slate 1001.02:1AaAa
Slate 2001.15:1AaAa
Slate 3001.39:1AaAa
Slate 4002.40:1AaAa
Slate 5004.45:1AaAa
Slate 6007.08:1AaAa
Slate 7009.68:1AaAa
Slate 80013.67:1AaAa
Slate 90016.69:1AaAa
Black19.63:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F6F7FC
deuteranopia · #F5F7FC
tritanopia · #F5F8F9

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #f6f7fc is pinned to step 50; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#f6f7fc
#EAECF6
#CFD4EC
#ABB4E3
#818FD5
#5769C7
#3D52B8
#334499
#29367A
#212A59
#151B38
Base = 50Lightest = 50 · #f6f7fcDarkest = 950 · #151B38Text step on white = 500
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.002 277.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.003 277.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.004 277.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.005 277.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.006 277.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.007 277.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.007 277.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.006 277.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.006 277.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.005 277.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.004 277.2);
}

Colors that work with #f6f7fc

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F4F5FA
Tinted page background
Border#C2C9EB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B589B
Captions on the surface
Accent#996633
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#202A60
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECEEF9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141624
Dark-mode background
Hover#DBDFF3
One step down in lightness
Pressed#C0C7EA
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DEE2F7
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #f6f7fc

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • White text placed on it
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #202A60
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #8391D6

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

trustedcalmcompetentcorporate

The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

It is also the most crowded hue on the web. Distinctiveness has to come from your other choices.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight2/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#FCFBF6
Analogous left#F6FAFC
Analogous right#F8F6FC
Split-complement 1#FCF8F6
Split-complement 2#FAFCF6
Triadic 1#FCF6F7
Triadic 2#F7FCF6
Tetradic#FCF6FA
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°230°

#f6f7fc sits at 230°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red96.5%
Green96.9%
Blue98.8%
R · 0–255
246
0xf6
G · 0–255
247
0xf7
B · 0–255
252
0xfc

CMYK percentages

Cyan2.4%
Magenta2.0%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)1.2%

Total ink coverage is 6%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f6f7fc text on a black background

contrast 19.63:1

Card sample

#f6f7fc text on a white background

contrast 1.07:1

Card sample

#f6f7fc on grey

1.02:1

#f6f7fc on its own surface

1.02:1

#f6f7fc on its dark surface

16.78:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f6f7fc;
Background color
Panel with #f6f7fc background
background-color: #f6f7fc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f6f7fc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(246, 247, 252, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(246, 247, 252, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f6f7fc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f6f7fc, #F9F6FC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f6f7fc, #FAF6FC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f6f7fc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f6f7fc;
caret-color: #f6f7fc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f6f7fc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECEEF9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f6f7fc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f6f7fc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f6f7fc over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(246, 247, 252, 0.5)
rgb(246 247 252 / 50%)
#f6f7fc80
hsl(230 50% 98% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f6f7fc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f6f7fc1a#FEFEFF
20%#f6f7fc33#FDFDFE
40%#f6f7fc66#FBFCFE
60%#f6f7fc99#FAFAFD
80%#f6f7fccc#F8F9FD

Gradients from #f6f7fc

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0F1FA, #f6f7fc 45%, #202A60);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f6f7fc, #EBDFF4);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f6f7fc, #FCFBF6);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F4F5FB 0%, #f6f7fc 45%, #202A60 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F5FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #202A60 0%, transparent 65%), #f6f7fc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f6f7fc

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#f6f7fc in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
TechnologyFinanceHealthcareEnterprise SaaS
Common UI roles
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
Print note

Very light tints can drop out on uncoated stock; check it at 100% size before signing off.

On screens

Very light values are indistinguishable from white on a dim phone screen outdoors. Give it a border if the boundary matters.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 19.63:1.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#f6f7fc, answered

What color is #f6f7fc?

#f6f7fc is a pale vivid blue, closest to Ghost White (ΔE2000 1.2). It sits at 230° on the hue wheel with 50% saturation and 98% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #f6f7fc?

rgb(246, 247, 252) — 246 red, 247 green and 252 blue out of 255, or 96.5% / 96.9% / 98.8% by channel.

What is #f6f7fc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(230, 50%, 98%) and hsv(230, 2%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f6f7fc a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9314 and perceived brightness is 97%, so black text on it reaches 19.63:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f6f7fc?

Black. It scores 19.63:1 against #f6f7fc, versus 1.07:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f6f7fc accessible on a white background?

#f6f7fc on white scores 1.07:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #5D6FC9 to reach 4.5:1, or #3B4FB2 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f6f7fc?

#FCFBF6 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FCF8F6 and #FAFCF6, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f6f7fc?

For interface work: #F4F5FA as the surface, #C2C9EB for borders, #4B589B for secondary text, #996633 as an accent and #202A60 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F6FAFC and #F8F6FC stays calm, while #FCFBF6 is the loudest partner.

What is #f6f7fc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(2%, 2%, 0%, 1%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #f6f7fc warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 89 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F5F4FB; nudged cooler, #F3F7FB.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f6f7fc?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 30.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f6f7fc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f6f7fc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f6f7fc] or text-[#f6f7fc], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #f6f7fc with 50% opacity?

rgba(246, 247, 252, 0.5), or #f6f7fc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FBFBFE; over black, #7B7C7E.

Is #f6f7fc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f6f7fc mean?

As a blue, it reads trusted, calm, competent. The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #f6f7fc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0F1FA, #f6f7fc 45%, #202A60). For more colour, a short hue run to #EBDFF4 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f6f7fc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f6f7fc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.